How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
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How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
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Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
#2I've always wondered what the development process looks like for these type of algorithms. If you have to run the program for a year to know if it will work, how can you have any confidence that what you've written is going to do the trick?
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Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
#4I've always wondered what the development process looks like for these type of algorithms. If you have to run the program for a year to know if it will work, how can you have any confidence that what you've written is going to do the trick?
Perhaps you try it on smaller, "test" data to see if it works?
Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
#5The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects).
The following CV line stands out however:
Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016.
Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations.
How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go?
I am not blaming the author as I would have done the same(and I imagine author was not told when hired that he'd be working on Java/Angular ad tool).
Again it is not that Java or Angular are bad per se, but working on ad CRUD seems completely orthogonal to author's talents.
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#7"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk."
That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident.
You should broaden your job hunt criteria to technical content marketing - seriously!
Very rare to possess the skill to tell a story in an entertaining, approachable and detailed technical fashion.
Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
#8I've always wondered what the development process looks like for these type of algorithms. If you have to run the program for a year to know if it will work, how can you have any confidence that what you've written is going to do the trick?
Perhaps you try it on smaller, "test" data to see if it works?
Exactly. We created some zip files we knew the password to and then checked that our code found the right one. Each stage would generate a bunch of files with different candidate ranges, so when testing the next stage, we'd choose the one file we knew had the correct key in it.
Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
#9"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk." That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident. You should broaden your job hunt criteria to technical content marketing - seriously! Very rare to possess the skill to tell a story in an entertaining, appr…
Hahaha, thanks!
Re: How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
#10The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…
Yeah, and it's why I left that job for something else.